All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move.